Baker City's Great Salt Lick Contest

Here's a neat idea. The Great Salt Lick Contest in Baker City, Oregon is an annual event (since 2006) in which local farmers put out 50lb salt block for cattle, deer, horses, goats, etc, to lick, and the animals lick the blocks into all sorts of weird and wonderful twisted shapes, reminiscent of abstract modernist sculptures.

The results are judged and auctioned off to benefit a local Parkinson's Disease research centre, and the winner is even cast in bronze.
The idea came from local man Whit Deschner, who noticed that used salt licks resembled art pieces, and established the contest back in 2006. And pretty impressive the results are too!